The chances of a reauthorization of the FAST Act appeared diminished Thursday when 11 of 12 Democrat senators on the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee backed the bill but just a single Republican senator of the panel’s 12 GOP members bothered to appear for a hearing on the matter, with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), telling his Democrat counterparts that COVID-19 spending and President Joe Biden’s proposed infrastructure bill have provided adequate funding for mass transit purposes.
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